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  • Les investisseurs étrangers bienvenus
    • Courrier International
    • 17 Feb 2011

    Disposant de terres arables non exploitées, la Zambie les loue à des entreprises occidentales qui y cultivent des céréales. De quoi assurer l’approvisionnement du marché national.

  • One way to create an African breadbasket
    • CS Monitor
    • 07 Feb 2011

    Foreign investment in a Zambian farming firm may be a business model for Africa's hunger and food security problems.

  • Zambia gives 5,000 hectares land to Saudi businessmen
    • Zambian Watchdog
    • 28 Jan 2011

    The Zambian Development Agency signed off the virgin land to a firm called Menafea Holding which will grow pineapples and produce juice

  • Saudi businessman plans to invest in Zambian fruit farm, plant
    • Bloomberg
    • 04 Dec 2010

    A Saudi Arabian investor plans to lease a 5,000 hectare farm and a fruit-processing plant in Zambia, Finance Minister Situmbeko Musokotwane said.

  • Zambia eyes Gulf investment in farm sector
    • Reuters
    • 04 Dec 2010

    Zambia does not regard leasing farmland to foreign investors as a form of 'colonialism' and is encouraging Gulf countries to invest in its agricultural sector, its finance minister said on Saturday.

  • Neha International to acquire land in Zambia
    • Equity Bulls
    • 01 Dec 2010

    Indian company signs an MoU with Zambia Development Agency to facilitate the acquisition of 100,000 hectares of land for agricultural development in Zambia.

  • Land legislation in Zambia bypasses the poor yet again
    • Stiffkitten's Blog
    • 02 Nov 2010

    Government’s policies of liberalizing land markets and focusing on foreign investment are having a detrimental impact on Zambia’s rural poor.

  • Civil society communiqué on large scale land acquisitions in Zambia
    • ZLA
    • 21 Oct 2010

    Land is too important to be left to the whims of international commercial interests to overrun the land rights of the ordinary people of Zambia.

  • Is Zambia Africa's next breadbasket?
    • Mail & Guardian
    • 01 Oct 2010

    International investors from Britain to South Africa have begun putting money into infrastructure development and transport, and about 200 exiled Zimbabwean farmers have taken leases from the Zambian government to develop farmland in the country.

  • African farms lure overseas investment
    • Business Report
    • 01 Sep 2010

    45 new private equity funds are planning to invest US$2 billion in African agriculture in the next 3-5 years, according to participants at the Africainvestor Agribusiness Project Summit taking place in Durban

  • African agricultural finance under the spotlight
    • Reuters
    • 24 Aug 2010

    African governments need to raise their level of accountability and ensure that they improve and protect their own food security through quid pro quo side-agreements negotiated when they lease or sell their arable land to foreign interests, says Keith Mullin of Thompson Reuters

  • ZDA, Chinese firm seal agro deal
    • Times of Zambia
    • 21 Aug 2010

    Zambia Development Agency (ZDA) has signed an agreement with Yuan Longping High-Tech Agriculture Company of China for the development of an agriculture farm bloc.

  • Women living near the #Socapalm oil palm plantation in Edéa, Cameroon, are struggling for their land, autonomy and livelihoods. Please read their account and sign in support before 15 December: https://forms.gle/gBKbFCv2Bizzpfbt7
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